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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: Failure building Emacs on WSL |
| Date: | Thu, 1 Feb 2018 13:23:35 -0800 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.2 |
On 02/01/2018 12:59 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
When is 'makeinfo' used building Emacs? If I build with ./configure.. ./make... ./make install is it really used?
It's not used if you're building from an Emacs distribution tarball, which is intended to be portable even to platforms lacking many developer tools. It is used if you're building from Git, where it's assumed you have a development environment with the appropriate tools, one of them being GNU texinfo.
It's probably best for you to arrange for your preferred environment to have all these tools. If that's not possible for some reason, you can first use GNU/Linux to create a tarball, and then copy the tarball to your more-limited development environment and build from that.
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